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We try to be mindful humans, but there are some things we should just let the mind take care of by itself.  Like our sense of where our ...

photo by Sheba Also Yes, Saturday has come and pass, but I hope all of you are still shopping locally.  I just did a bit myself by v...

OK, Ted talks are inspiring and PBS's Nova has amazing production, but I had to let my students know how it was done back in the day... ...

Back in the day when I studied Biology I was drawn away from the molecular to the ecological. I wanted to be pondering a wetland not lookin...

photo by Euclid vanderKroew Chiral comes from the Greek word for hand, χειρ (cheir). Thus humans and chemicals can be left-handed and righ...

photo by Chrisam42 a few hours ago, under the quilt of healing , I began to think more about immune systems and such. Our bodies fight so h...

photo by Todd MacDonald I guess it was soon after the doctor visit when I discovered Springsteen . I remember a sunset. I had forgotten it...

Driving Into the Fault Line by Giant Ginko I am going to venture into plate tectonics this week at which point I may say, since I have said ...

as yesterday's post came to an end, I realized I had not ventured into the science of hearts 1. Bleeding Hearts: the above variety fro...

photo by chrissam42 I am sure it seemed like it had to be one way or the other way to those who argued the point. Isn't that true to to...

photo by tonynetone Our universe may exist within a ________ The problem with warp speed is that it would ________ By using a ______ we can...

Mosaic Woman gave me All of Science for Christmas. She just may know me very well. In the past few years, I have taught the following cour...

photo by Greehawk68 I am digging Nova Science Now and the host Neil deGrasse Tyson is a wonderful host. Is he the Carl Sagan for this tim...

photo by Darek Smid Entering my classroom I had my plans set for the week, but I wasn't sure what topic I would be teaching in 90 minute...

Photo by Dana Graves Cosmic Times jumps from 1929 to 1955, because this happened . So today I told the story of how blackouts in 1943 LA al...

Sunday afternoon I got home from being away from home since early Friday morning, hung out with Mosaic Woman then made a pizza for a friend...

Connections by Seth Anderson In the next three days during my Social Science class... we will go from Benedict to a surplus of sheep to the ...

I am hoping that my students will soon be able to explain how scientists have the nerve to tell us what elements are located in distant star...

So I tell my students the speed of light and I hope for a question like... Why should we believe that? After all it moves at 299,792.458 ki...

Last Monday I wrote about using NASA's cosmic times curriculum for 1919. This morning I finsihed 1919 then took a side route away from...